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Re: %q with truncating size loses safeness of %q
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: %q with truncating size loses safeness of %q |
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Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:40:39 -0400 |
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On 4/17/20 6:37 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> This happens only because of the cheap way we (and I presume you)
> implement things - in any rational scheme, it would take the precision
> chars from the source string, and then quote them.
Nobody, including POSIX, is rational, then.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/